New Books in Latin American Studies
Latest Episodes
Hugo Wong, "America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream" (Oxford UP, 2023)
An interview with Hugo Wong
David Carey, Jr., "Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador" (U California Press, 2023)
An interview with David Carey, Jr.
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist
What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism?
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico
Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention.
Beatriz Nascimento, "The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento" (Princeton UP, 2023)
An interview with Christen A. Smith, Bethnia Gomes, and Archie Davies
Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela E. Sandstrom, "Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana" (UP of Colorado, 2023)
An interview with Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela E. Sandstrom
Graham Denyer Willis, "Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil" (U California Press, 2022)
An interview with Graham Denyer Willis
Sharony Green, "The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
An interview with Sharony Green
Robert C. Bradley, "Eating Peru: A Gastronomic Journey" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
An interview with Robert C. Bradley
Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)
An interview with Marisel C. Moreno